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F8: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 due to captions omitting some dialogue or important sound effects

Applicability

Applies to all technologies.

This failure relates to:

Description

This describes a failure condition for all techniques involving captions. If the "caption" does not include all of the dialogue (either verbatim or in essence) as well as all important sounds then the 'Captions' are not real captions.

NOTE: Captions sometimes simplify the spoken text both to make it easier to read and to avoid forcing the viewer to read at very high speed. This is standard procedure and does not invalidate a caption.

Examples

Failure Example 1

Examples of text streams that are not captions include:

  • text that contains the dialogue (possibly simplified dialogue) but that does not describe important sounds

  • text that omits dialogue during portions of the material

Resources

No resources available for this technique.

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Tests

Procedure

  1. View the material with captioning turned on.

  2. Check that all dialogue is accompanied by a caption.

  3. Check that all important sounds are captioned.

Expected Results

Techniques are Informative

Techniques are informative—that means they are not required. The basis for determining conformance to WCAG 2.0 is the success criteria from the WCAG 2.0 standard—not the techniques. For important information about techniques, please see the Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria section of Understanding WCAG 2.0.